Stove



(No Model.)

1V.[-G. ARMOUR.

STOVE.

110.284,11. Patented Aug. 28, 1883..

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Nrrnn STATES PATENT Oriucitu MICHAEL C. ARMOUR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.4

STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,113, dated August 28, 1883,

Application filed February 24,1983. (No model.) l

To cti/Z whom it may concern: f

Be it known that I, MICHAEL C. ARMOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing atChi cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoves, of which the following is a specification, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of the stove proper, and also of one of its lamps, the other lamp-that is, the one at the rightbeiug shown in front elevation; and Fig. 2 is a pla'n view of the shelf which supports the lamps and oven, its supporting-rods and the legs ofthe stove being shown in plan section taken at the level ofthe top of said shelf.

My invention relates to stoves provided with two combustion apparatuses.

The object of my invention isto so construct a stove having twolamps, with a heating-chamber between them, as to render possible in a stove of this class the occasional arrangement of lamps in close proximity to each other, for the purpose of carrying on all the combustion possible directly under wash-boilers or other similarly long utensils or articles which it is desired to heat, and which are so extensive as to more than cover a single lamp.

In the drawings., which illustrate one embodiment of my invention, and will now be particularly described, A represents a horizontal flue, which forms the top of the stove, and is supported on legs c. This iiue A is provided with rectangular covers B at each end, which are themselves provided with vessel-openings, and covers b for the same. Between these covers B, the stove-top is formed of a skeleton cover, B formed of bars b, connected together by suitable cross-bars, the bars b projecting above the general level of the top of the stove to insure the escape of the products ofcombustion-that is, of the combustion-current. The plates Band B are all removable and interchangeable, and as these `plates B and B abut against each other, when two are removed which are "adjacent to each other the opening in the top is long enough to receive instead large vesselssuch as washboilers-which may thus be exposed directly to contact with the combustioncurrentby making such boiler, for the time being and to the extent to which it is substituted, itself the top ofthe horizontal flue.

C isa shelf, supported at its ends by the stove-legs a., and at intermediate points betweenthe recesses out in said shelf for the re` ception of the reservoirs of the lamps, by suspensiourods c, depending from the stove-top A. W'ithin these recesses of the shelf C are received the reservoirs d of the removable lamps D, the reservoir being of a width which about equals that of said recesses, the side vedges of the latter 'forming guides, by which the position of the lamps relatively to each other is regulated. The tops of the 4reservoirs project at each side, as shown in Fig. l, in a lip or iiange, which supports the lamp. The object of recessing the shelf Cis to allow of its being located high enough above the bottom of the lamp to place the removable oven, or whatever else may be upon it to be heated, more nearly on a level with the chimneys, and consequently nearer to that position where the radiated heat can be best utilized. The top of the lamp-by whichis meant the tops of the chimneys d? thereof-is provided with a plate, d', atsuitable openings, in which the top of each chimney terminates, and which plate d is provided with upwardly-projecting posts or protuberances cl3, by means of which the continuity and escape of the combustion-current is insured when the lamp is entirely removed from the stove proper and used independently-as a separate stove in itself-to support and heat upon its top cooking utensils. To provide for the close connection of the lamp with the stove proper and still retain these protuberances d, for the purpose aforesaid, three iianges, a2, are provided, each of which depends from the bottom of the horizontal iiue A, around the back and sides of arectangular opening therein, and each of which anges c2 corresponds in position and general appearance with the recesses in the shelf C, each of said flanges c2 thus forming a chamber,the fourth or front side of which is formed, when the lamp is in place in the stove, by an upwardly-projecting flange, df,

rising from the top of the oven, or the top of the are shown in section.

e esmas lamp, as the case may be,which flange el* forms a closeI joint with the front ends of the depending flange a2 by sliding in between them. This is-shown in the right of Fig. l, exceptthat the opposite sides of the depending f ian ge a2, which are throughout at right angles to the flange d, When the oven is slid iii endwise at the end of the stove, (as hereinafter described,) its flange will project up between the stove-legs a andthe end of the horizontal flue A, and will thus be no hindrance to that endwise passage of the oven between the guides c and c", hereinafter mentioned.

Between the lamps there is a rectangular warming-oven, E, of' ordinary construction, though the ends of the same next to thelamps are without walls and entirely open. This oven E is removable, as well as the lamps, by simply sliding it horizontally out at the front 'of the stove, during which operation it is gui ded by the flanges c, cast on the shelf' C. The depth of' the oven f'rom front to back @outside measurement) about equals the distance between one of the flanges ci and the nearest flange c.

Frein all the foregoing it will be perceived that when desirable one of' the lamps may be substituted for the oven, the latter, ifit is not entirely removed from the stove, being capable of sliding in endwise between the flange e2 and the nearest flange c', where it will be out ofthe way.

The object of adapting the stove for the reception of lamps in three different places is that. if desired, a third lamp may be inserted in` the space between the two outer lamps, which is usually used for warming food, and is shown in the drawings as especiallyadapted to that purpose through the intervention of the removable oven.

rlhe object of making the lamps, or at least one of' them, interchangeable with the oven is to provide, without the use of a third lamp, for bringing the combusti oli-currents from both lamps into direct contact with the bottoms of utensils-such as wash-boilers-which are not long enough to extend over both lamps when the latter are separated by an intervening oven, and even when the top ofthe horizontal flue is not removed it is ofcourse a great advantage to be able to place all of the boiler directly over the combustion apparatuses.

The object of using two combustion apparatuses-one at each side of an oven-instead of a single combustion' apparatus at one side, is of course that the heat is more evenly distributed in said oven, and is too obvious to require elaboration here.

I do not here claim, broadly, either a removable oven, a removable lamp, or a stove having a removable lamp at each end and an oven between them5'but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A stove provided with lamps and a space between two of said lamps,'combined with an oven placed within said space and adapted to be removed Jtherefrom, substantially as set forth.

2. A stove provided with removable lamps and a space between two of said lamps, 'combined with a shelf at the bottom of said space, said shelf being recessed to allow a lamp to be slid in and held thereby, substantially as set forth.

3. A stove provided with lamps and having a space between two of said lamps, combined with an oven supported within the space and having an open end adjacent to each of said two lamps, the oven being removable from removable oven supported between two of said lamps, and a shelf at the bottom of said space, having flanges to guide the oven as it is inserted within and drawn from the space, substantially as set forth. Y

5. The combination, in a stove, of alamp at each end thereof, and a sliding or removable ovenhaving an open end confronting each of said lamps, substantially as said forth.

6. The combination, in a stove, of a lamp at each end thereof, and a shelf forming the bottom ofthe spaces for the lamps and ofv an intermediate space, said shelf being recessed for the reception of each end lamp, and also recessed centrally to receive a lamp in the in- A and between the stove-top and said'shelf is rendered possible, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

MICHAEL C. ARMOUR.

NVitnesses:

GEO. R. CUTLER,- E. O. CRAWFORD.

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